Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Apr 2001 10:12:30 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: SCSI Tape Corruption - update 2 |
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On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Nate Eldredge wrote: > lomarcan@tin.it wrote: > > Well, the 2.2 distributed with Mandrake 7.2 works fine ... :) > > > > Hmmm... 32 CONSECUTIVE bytes are a very peculiar error. What can it be? > > > > Still experimenting... > > I once ran into a problem with 32-byte errors appearing in files, and > later, in memory. I eventually traced it to buggy motherboard cache. > (32 bytes is the size of a cache line.) A memory tester might be > something to try (I wrote a simple program that seemed to show the > error better than memtest86; can send it if desired.)
In that case I'd expect the problem to show up when doing whatever. So far I could not find corrupted files on my hard disk, only when writing to tape, and only with 2.3/2.4.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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